“Custom Elements Without JavaScript? - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
I’ve done this quite a bit in the past. The benefit over using classes or attributes for hooking styles is lower specificity so it won’t conflict with component styles.
“iOS 14.5 brings the new Safari 14.1 to PWAs and the Web Platform － firt.dev”
“shape-outside - CSS: Cascading Style Sheets - MDN”
TIL that shape-outside has decent support in modern browsers.
“Exploring color-contrast() for the First Time - CSS-Tricks”
This would be really useful.
“The Rise of The Four Day Work Week – Paul Taylor”
Many managers would become more opposed to a four day work week if they believed it to be more productive. Their primary mentality is punitive. As Deming said, nobody gives a hoot about profits.
This is a great idea. Hope it gets implemented. Kind of wonder why Chromers have been wasting time on Bluetooth or USB APIs that other browsers won’t implement when low-hanging fruit like this is still unpicked.
“The True Meaning of Technical Debt 💸 - Refactoring”
“Ward describes debt as the natural result of writing code about something we don’t have a proper understanding of.”
I wonder if JSX fans would’ve used E4X?
If we as a community had been more open to the ‘XMLisation’ of the web, might frameworks like React have been built using mostly native xml-based syntax primitives?
Compared to Canadian and British banks, Icelandic online banking is far better in every way. Which is strange because Icelandic banks are smaller, have fewer resources, but still have to deal with a complicated regulatory environment, operating under EU regulations.
“Crypto miners are killing free CI”
Cryptocurrency is an industry of parasites and con artists.
“Adactio: Links—A quick look at privacy-focused analytics for small sites”
“Getting started with CSS Custom Properties - Tutorial - Piccalilli”
Another platform feature I use in every project.
“Custom events in vanilla JS - Go Make Things”
Pretty much every project I work on uses Custom Events somewhere.
“On women having sex with themselves – Going Medieval”
History.
“Marvel movies have a weird relationship with kissing and romance - Polygon”